Tucson, Arizona
🐚 CASTING THE SHELL 🐚
| Mad Kate | sound artist, dancer (Berlin)
a performance ritual marking their 46th turning
January 26th > 6 pm + start 7 pm
@ the home of Eryka Dellenbach
(((dm for address)))
Tucson, Arizona
🐚 CASTING THE SHELL 🐚
| Mad Kate | sound artist, dancer (Berlin)
a performance ritual marking their 46th turning
January 26th > 6 pm + start 7 pm
@ the home of Eryka Dellenbach
(((dm for address)))
20 November 2024
The Chimera fanzine will raise money to be donated to Haven for Artists and Nation Station, two organizations that work very hard to help displaced families in Lebanon.
Mad Kate has contributed their original text “The Seams Between”. It was written for their musical collaboration with musician and producer NOUR for Soli-Tunes by Your Moms Agency.
The release party for the Chimera fanzine will take place on November 20 at Les Clameurs, in Lyon, France at 7PM
More details soon regarding fanzine sales locations (after the release party).
Release Party Program:
– @nicewordsperishlast (poetry)
– @melissaghazale (performance)
– Digital Cheikhates (DJ set)
Please join us Friday evening for my solo exhibition opening at Kreuzberg Pavillon @kreuzbergpavillon. I will debut Part III of my VR work documenting queer spaces in Berlin. I warmly thank Heiko Pfreundt and Lisa Schorm for the invitation to exhibit. I also invite you to check out https://queerspaces.berlin, where I have added Kino Moviemento and expanded the interview for Monster Ronson’s with a contribution by BLEACH.
Address: Kreuzberg Pavillon, Naunynstrasse 53, 10999 Berlin
Opening: Friday, September 27, 20:00
Exhibition Dates: September 27 – October 27
For additional information, including opening times and contact information, please visit: https://kreuzbergpavillon.tumblr.com
THANK YOU everyone who has been part of this process!
CREDITS
Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive, Part III, 2024
BEGiNE – Treffpunkt und Kultur für Frauen, Möbel-Olfe, and Monster Ronson’s Ichiban Karaoke
Director and Producer: Benjamin Busch
Technical Director: Vladimir Storm @vladstorm_
3D Scans: Benjamin Busch
Sound Pools: Sarah Martinus @sarahmartinus
Interviewers: Benjamin Busch, Kevin Junk @lupodoro
Interviewees: Barbara Hoyer and Manu Hoyer, BEGiNE – Treffpunkt und Kultur für Frauen @begine_kultur; Axel and Grace, Möbel-Olfe #moebelolfe; Monster Ronson and BLEACH, Monster Ronson’s Ichiban Karaoke @monsterronsons
Voice Actors: Ruco laPesto @ruco_lapesto, Mad Kate @madkate27, Mauve Rivask, Adrienne Teicher @adrienne.teicher, Marshall Vincent @marshallvincent.flac
Audio Recording and Engineering: Adrienne Teicher @adrienne.teicher, Mad Kate @madkate27, Risto Pikkarainen @risto_is_mixing
Translation: Brenton Withers @_brewith_, Lukas Christ
Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion @senkultgz
Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive, Part II, 2023
Kino Moviemento × XPOSED × Pornfilmfestival
@moviemento @xposedqueerfilmfest @pff_berlin
Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive, Part I, 2022
Ficken 3000, SO36 × Gayhane, Sonntags-Club
@ficken3000official @so36_club #Gayhane @sonntags.club
#queer #queervr #vrart #vrkunst #medienkunst #mediaart #vr #lidar #laserscanning #art #berlin #benjaminbusch #scanningthehorizon #animmersivearchive
https://www.instagram.com/lunchboxcandy/?hl=en
It’s all the flavour with none of the additives. Lunchbox Candy – Sugar Free is a chance to get high on life as we present a jam-packed evening filled with energetic house music, intimate connection, deranged performances, sexual healing, transformative workshops and oh dancing, yes there will be dancing! We’re creating a sober experience for not only those who lead a sober lifestyle or the sober curious but to all of our community for a chance to bathe in the wonders of Lunchbox Candy without consuming alcohol or any other substances. An opportunity to connect with yourself and others, naturally. To kick off the evening on the Candy Flip floor the amazing Phoenix Chase-Meares will facilitate a movement workshop ‘How To Access The Non Fearful Body’ followed by Alvin Collantes lifting our spirits higher with ‘A Dose Of Pleasure’. Participation is optional but highly recommended but please remember spaces are limited. On The Box Floor we will have music all night long with Djs Adam Munnings, Ketia, Kim Swim and Anita Drink to keep you moving and grooving. A fire lineup of inspiring hosts / performers curated by Nancy Nutter will be sure to blow your mind and keep you entertained, gooped and gagged. Expect the unexpected, after all it’s Lunchbox Candy. Our Love Room will be open for cuties who love to cruise hosted by Lesbo Pro (House Of Steel). It’s a space for all bodies, genders and sexual orientations. Let’s celebrate sexuality without the chems. Sip a mocktail, snack on some fresh fruit and trust yourself and the process cause all we’re consuming is a damn good time. Join us October 10th at Aeden Berlin for Lunchbox Candy – Sugar Free, a sober experience open to all. Doors open at 7:30pm.
“my fear of pretending” at Loftas Festival Vilnius
“My Fear of Pretending” is a deeply personal and political performance that blends original music, poetry, and physicality to explore the fluidity and multiplicity of queer identities in relation to labour, the performance of identity and authenticity and the use(full)/(less)ness of performativity. By examining the queer self as an evolving process of self-making and empowerment rather than a fixed identity, the performance traverses the intimate landscape of sexuality and extends these concepts to the socio-political realm, encompassing the body as nation and community. Mad Kate, a producer, poet, and musician, weaves her field recordings with the everyday practices of her sexuality, creating sonic tapestries that resonate with the queerness of her lived experience as sex worker, as queer feminist performer, as a parent, as an activist.
with sisters fellow performers Federica Dauri @federicadauri ReveRso @rolereverso thanks to David @deivydas_valenta @loftasfest
25 August 2024 Hamburg, Germany – Kampnagel Sommerfestival Tickets
photos by George DuBose
photos by Christian Holle
photos by Désirée Pezzetta LAUTdotDE
Tom of Finland Foundation presents the
Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival 2024
Art Speaks Through Us
The Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival is the world’s largest erotic art fair. The first installment of the Festival was held in 1993. Since then, it has grown into a truly global affair, bringing Queer artists and art lovers together from all over the world.
The Festival is Tom of Finland Foundation’s yearly programming effort to bring together artists, galleries and patrons from all over the globe in a socially friendly setting to network as well as buy and sell works. It serves as the biggest public showcase for the Foundation and its mission to protect, preserve, and promote Queer and erotic art.
As the Foundation celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, the Festival will be held in London, Berlin and Los Angeles. Past festivals have included renowned artists such as Pol Anglada, Rick Castro, Marc DeBauch, Rubén Esparza, Markus Hoffmann-Achenbach, Łukasz Leja, Matt Pagett, Pâme, Sal Salandra, Stuart Sanford, Suzanne Shifflett, and Hector Silva. The Festival has been held in various places from TOM House (the Foundation’s headquarters), Second Home London & Hollywood, prideART at The Knast in Berlin, The Standard Hotel London and Soho Warehouse in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles installment also features current artists from the Artist-in-Residence program, which is a crucial part of the Foundations artist education efforts.
In 2023, the Festivals in Berlin, London and Los Angeles collectively gathered together over 1,800 visitors, 80 artists, vendors and galleries from the United States, Mexico, Finland, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, France, Spain and Ireland.
Berlin is curated by Richard Villani, Eric Le Rouge & Konstantinos Menelaou.
20 August 2024 PEACHES BERLIN
21 August 2024 PEACHES Hamburg
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Mad Kate | the Tide are a post punk conceptual performance project with Jacopo Bertacco (Tide of Sound) on guitar, loops, electronics, Kathryn Fischer aka Mad Kate on vocals, poetry, contact mics and performance and Sara Neidorf on drums.
This performance celebrates the release of their double single “Generate Content / This is the Hand”.
This is the Hand: https://listen.music-hub.com/OUIsa9
Generate Content: https://listen.music-hub.com/Ppe0aV
Their 2020 EP This Morning Waking about was about genderbased violence and they are now finishing their LP sexWORKperformanceART about the relationship between labour, art and the body. Their Discography also includes ALIVE:ness (LP/eBook 2014), Combinatorics (EP/eBook 2013), will be ready – the Teufelsberg session – (LP Freudian Slit Records 2013) and Leather Jacket (Single/remix 2012)
Composed in dialogue with conceptual explorations and texts, Mad Kate | the Tide’s dynamic sonicscapes mix punk, acoustic folk, psychedelic rock and spoken word. They form the backbone for honest, sometimes darkly provocative performance art and movement which provokes and stirs its audiences.
In their multimedia work ALIVE:ness they ask: To what extent are we alive in each other’s lives —physically, emotionally, electronically, living or dead — taking into account our contemporary context of virtual interaction, shape-shifting and polyphysical interpretations of our own identities? What does it mean to be present when the terms of our own existence are relative to how we interact physically and virtually with those most close to us? What does it mean to queer our identity in a global context in order to be more effective activists and global citizens?
SPITPLAY are a new Berlin post-wave noise duo, Godzilla meets Eurythmics. Their music features: a relentlessly straight 90’s drum machine, a distorted mantra-monotone bass, synthwave and noise sprinkles and vocal acrobatics oscillating between dreampop sweetness and Diamanda Galas performance. A flowery neologism for a feuilleton drawer would probably be Alien Goth Pop.
Founding members from the Cuntroaches and Chrome Animals.